Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!
The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.